anchorWebex for Government Developer Portal

The Webex for Government developer portal is available at https://developer-usgov.webex.com. This is an access controlled portal which will allow customers and partners with a Webex for Government Organization to create Bots and Integrations, to seek developer support and to review API reference guide. This portal is currently in beta.

The environment is specially isolated and secured in accordance with the mandated standards. Consequently, some of the convenience tools in support of application development are not available. As an example, today there is no developer portal, like there is for the commercial environment (developer.webex.com), which could be used to develop applications for the Webex FedRAMP environment. Instead, partners are encouraged to develop their applications – respecting the API limitations outlined in this document – in the commercial environment and then follow the approach to register their apps as described later here for the FedRAMP Webex system.

Partners that are already familiar with the Webex API's and therefore do not need the guides, API explorer, blogs and other support infrastructure from the commercial developer portal will be able to develop apps in the Webex FedRAMP environment directly with the help of the instructions in this document.

The information and instructions in this document are intentionally succinct. A limited FedRAMP developer portal will be available in due time and subsume this document's content.

anchorAPI Gateway and Control Hub addresses for FedRAMP

The Webex APIs in FedRAMP are accessible under api-usgov.webex.com. For example, the full address for the messages endpoint would be https://api-usgov.webex.com/v1/messages, which is notably distinct from the commercial environment at webexapis.com. Applications for the FedRAMP environment must call that API address alone. The Control Hub login screen is available at https://admin-usgov.webex.com, also separate and distinct from the commercial environment.

The Webex XML APIs used to control the meetings experience are accessed under the site name, in the same way as the commercial APIs. For example, if one of FedRAMP customer site's name is ‘abc', its DNS is abc.webex.com, and the XML API can be accessed at https://abc.webex.com/WBXService/XMLService.

anchorFedRAMP application types

In the Webex commercial environment, there are a set of application types available that do not translate directly to the FedRAMP environment. There are bots (standalone persons), integrations (acting on a user's behalf), and guest issuers (create anonymous persons) available in the commercial environment. Guest Issuers are not available in FedRAMP, and there is no substitute currently planned. Those app types have been intentionally disabled. As such, this document will cover the development of bots and integrations as its primary goal.